BRIEF

In a time where we are all locked in our homes, waiting to go back to our normal did you feel that it’s getting harder to leave the safety of home? Agoraphobia is a mental illness that leaves its bearers unable to leave their safe spaces like their homes. It is an illness than occur due to extreme fear like getting sick, catching a virus, fear of death.

Told by numbers is a zine that focuses on phobias and how they affect people according to researches and data that has accumulated over the years. In this issue it focuses on Agoraphobia.

RESEARCH

The most significant part of the project was the research. Reading various academic journals, deciding which data is more adequate, the order, and how it should be represented. A self-publishing zine that has time to target and make itself an audience.

To give a humane side the digital and analog works were infused to each other. Headlines were written in a handwriting as to captivate the reader.

FUNCTION

Inform and create awareness to the people who might or might not be living with a phobia.

CONCEPT

Mental health is an important part of life and phobias which we live with is not seeing as importance at it should. Phobias are born out of mental issues and discomfort and they leave their bearer in uncomfortable situations. Told by numbers focuses on this part of mental health where main importance is phobias. By focusing on one phobia in each issue it gives that phobia a focus, make people aware and also to inform them.